COLOMBIA FACTS ON PROSTITUTION

Child prostitution rings working in sex shops throughout Colombia were raided in September 1998, freeing 370 minors aged 12-16. Twenty-nine adults were arrested. The children where being held in slavery-like conditions, were abused and forced into prostitution. At least 145 of the children where found in Cartegena, a busy sex-tourist destination. ("Colombia launches crackdown on child prostitution," Reuters, 26 September 1998)........

In Colombia there are two types of prostitution trade networks : Ones which only works with women from within the country or the regional area, sending women to Venezuela, Ecuador and Panama; the others deal on an exclusively international scale, providing Colombian women for the markets in Spain, Britain, Germany, Belgium and the United States. (Radhika Coomaraswamy, UN Special Report on Violence Against Women, Gustavo Capdevila, IPS, 2 April 1997)

At least one, and as many as four United States Marines assigned to the U.S. Embassy in Bogota are accused of assaulting a prostituted woman in Decmber 1997. The woman was confined in a truck, and suffered severe bruises on her wrists, chest and knee from the attack. When she went to the Embassy to ask for compensation for injuries and loss of work, an official offered her $150 in exchange for not filing charges. ("U.S. Marine investigated in Columbia," UPI, 20 January 1998) & ("U.S. Marines Beat Up Woman In Columbia," Agence France Presse, 21 JANUARY 1998) The Comfort Women : Japan's Brutal Regime of Enforced Prostitution in the Second World War

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